Unlocking the Value of Modern Business Intelligence: Moving Beyond Legacy Tools
Webinar Speaker: Donald Farmer, Research Fellow
Date: Monday, April 28, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
Even as businesses move forward with AI proofs of concept and pilot projects, many teams are still wrestling with cumbersome, outdated reporting and dashboards—or struggling to fulfill the promise of self-service with traditional on-premises BI tools.
Join us to discover how modern, cloud-native business intelligence platforms are breaking through these limitations. In this webinar, you’ll learn how forward-thinking organizations are enabling intuitive, collaborative analytics that drive rapid time-to-insight, higher user adoption, and robust data governance, all while significantly lowering total cost of ownership.
Topics Include:
- Key drawbacks of legacy BI architectures and why they keep your analytics stuck in the past
- How modern, scalable platforms can deliver higher adoption rates and significant annualized resource savings
- Practical steps to enable self-service capabilities and empower non-technical teams
- Best practices for ensuring data transparency and strong governance in a cloud-native environment
Guest Speakers
Raja Perumal
Technology Alliances Director
Databricks
Raja Perumal is a Technology Alliances Director at Databricks, focused on Data Governance and Business Intelligence ISVs. Prior to Databricks, he spent 10 years in Analytics consulting, helping organizations deal with large amounts of data before working at Alation and Snowflake.
Dillon Morrison
Senior Director of Product Management
Sigma
Dillon Morrison is the Senior Director of Product Management at Sigma. In this role, Morrison manages a talented team of product managers responsible for the entire core product experience – a crucial part of Sigma’s business strategy encompassing BI, AI, spreadsheets, data modeling, data biz, and ecosystem integrations. His work to bring Data Models into Sigma’s capabilities further bolstered the company’s position as a market leader in self-service analytics. With over ten years of experience in product management roles and his proven track record of innovation in organization-wide analytical models and BI platforms, Morrison plays a crucial role in Sigma’s exciting product roadmap development in modeling and governance capabilities.
Date: April 28, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm PT
Donald Farmer